http://www.breezetree.com/press-releases.htm BreezeTree Software Press Releases and Company Announcements en-us http://www.breezetree.com/press-releases.htm Tue, 30 Oct 2007 01:00 -0800 Sherwood, OR - BreezeTree Software Launches FlowBreeze 2.0, an Excel Add-In that creates Flow Charts from text. BreezeTree Software announced today that it has released FlowBreeze 2.0, a flowcharting tool for Microsoft Excel. With FlowBreeze 2.0, users of Microsoft Office will now be able to layout the flowchart content in plain text then create the flowchart with an easy to use automation tool. The new Text-To-Flowchart Wizard allows users to enter the text into Excel worksheet cells in the approximate layout the final flowchart will take. At the click of a button the text is loaded into a form that allows the user to set symbol types, formatting styles, and connector routings. The Wizard then creates a flowchart with all the proper symbols, text, and arrows. Minor layout adjustments are often necessary, but the amount of time to create a flowchart is cut dramatically. In addition to the Text-To-Flowchart Wizard, users can make flowcharts by interactively typing text into a worksheet. FlowBreeze will grab the text and replace it with an appropriate flowchart symbol, apply preset styles, and add a connector from the previous symbol. The core of FlowBreeze is its text-to-symbol engine. It works by allowing users to associate keywords with symbol types. Users can also preset numerous rules to set styles, choose connect types and formatting, and autosize symbols. Many of our customers own licenses for other, more expensive flowcharting products. They choose FlowBreeze because of the time savings, said Nicholas Hebb, founder of BreezeTree Software. We get feedback customers all the time that FlowBreeze pays for itself it in the first day. That sends an incredibly strong message to us that we’ve tapped a new frontier in flowcharting - productivity. Most flow chart software works via the drag and drop paradigm. The users drags the shape, types the process step, then manually adds the arrow. Applying any custom formatting can be a time consuming, wrist-aching exercise in mouse clicks. With FlowBreeze, all that functionality is automated. FlowBreeze leverages the Drawing Tools in Microsoft Excel, with 124 symbol types and multiple connector types. It emulates the attractive styles offered in Excel 2007, allowing those styles to be used in Excel 2003, Excel XP (2002), and to some extent Excel 2000. Global styles can be changed and applied at the click of a button. By leveraging the power of Microsoft Excel, FlowBreeze lets users combine data and diagrams in a single package. With the Extract Text feature, users can output the process steps to the worksheet and tabulate process metrics on the same sheet. Files are saved as standard Excel files, and anyone with Microsoft Office can edit, share, or maintain the flowcharts created with FlowBreeze. To further enhance productivity, FlowBreeze ships includes 120 flowchart templates quicker flowchart creation of cross-functional swim lanes, title blocks, and block diagrams. With the new picture export feature, users can save flowcharts, and Excel spreadsheet contents, in multiple picture formats for use in process documentation, training manuals, help files, or web sites. http://www.breezetree.com/press-releases.htm Fri, 30 Mar 2007 15:18 -0800 Sherwood, OR - BreezeTree Software announced it has released FlowBreeze 1.3, a flowcharting software add-in for Microsoft® Excel®. With the new release of FlowBreeze, users of Microsoft Office 2007 will now be able to generate flowcharts in a fraction of the normal time. This release is compatible Microsoft Excel 2007, 2003, 2002 (XP), and 2000. It also supports the new Microsoft Vista operating system, as well as Windows XP and Windows 2000. FlowBreeze is a flowcharting add-in for Excel that allows users to generate flowcharts by typing text into worksheet cells. The product converts the text into a flowchart symbol. The user can configure keywords that cause specific flowchart symbols to be generated when the text contains a keyword. FlowBreeze automatically adds and routes connecting arrows, formats the symbols, and aligns the flowchart. FlowBreeze includes several other time saving features as well, including the ability to paste text from a Microsoft Word document into a spreadsheet and have a flowchart generated on the fly – creating and connecting separate symbols for each line of text. FlowBreeze is a flowcharting tool targeted at users who need to collaborate with others. Once a flowchart is created, anyone with Excel can edit and maintain the flowcharts without the need for another copy of FlowBreeze or any other 3rd party flowcharting software. FlowBreeze is resonating particularly well with professionals who not only gain a productivity boost, but also leverage the built-in analysis capabilities of Excel, allowing them to converge their data with their diagrams. http://www.breezetree.com/press-releases.htm Thur, 05 Oct 2006 12:00:00 -0800 BreezeTree Software today announced it has released FlowBreeze 1.2, an update of its flowcharting software add-in for Microsoft Excel. Version 1.2 includes Improved symbol positioning and autosizing. Added gradient color transparency settings, auto-capitalization of symbol text, an export symbol rules list feature, and more. http://www.breezetree.com/press-releases.htm Sun, 19 Mar 2006 12:00:00 -0800 BreezeTree Software today announced it has released FlowBreeze 1.0, a flowcharting software add-in for Microsoft Excel. With FlowBreeze, users of Microsoft Office drawing tools will now be able to automate the generation of flowcharts. The product marks the launch of the first in a series of flowcharting, process mapping and value stream mapping tools that BreezeTree Software will release in the coming year. The products will be targeted at professionals in the ISO 9000, Six Sigma, and Lean markets. http://www.breezetree.com/press-releases.htm Sun, 05 Mar 2006 12:00:00 -0800 The 2nd version of the Beta was released and is available for download here. The Beta 2 version fixes several bugs and usability issues found in the first Beta release of FlowBreeze. Also, a new feature was added, allowing users to copy and paste a list of steps into FlowBreeze and automatically generate a flowchart. http://www.breezetree.com/press-releases.htm Tue, 28 Feb 2006 12:00:00 -0800 Beta testing for FlowBreeze, a flowcharting automation add-in for Microsoft Excel, has begun. http://www.breezetree.com/press-releases.htm Sun, 12 Feb 2006 12:00:00 -0800 In anticipation of the coming release of BreezeTree FlowBreeze text-to-flowcharting software, the BreezeTree web site has undergone a major overhaul. Aside from the cosmetic changes, the flowcharting articles were revised and expanded, and the FlowBreeze product hub now has screenshots, an interactive flowcharting demo movie, and full on-line help file. http://www.breezetree.com/press-releases.htm Sat, 21 Jan 2006 12:00:00 -0800 The first round of pre-Beta user testing was completed. Users discovered several usability issues and Excel 2000 compatibility bugs. These issues are being resolved and will be fixedgoing into the Beta test. http://www.breezetree.com/press-releases.htm Fri, 01 Nov 2005 12:00:00 -0800 BreezeTree announces sign-ups are available for the FlowBreeze beta testing program. All beta testers will receive 25% off the release price. http://www.breezetree.com/press-releases.htm Fri, 16 Sep 2005 12:00:00 -0800 Several new additions to the library of flowcharting articles have been added. http://www.breezetree.com/press-releases.htm Mon, 20 Jun 2005 12:00:00 -0800 BreezeTree launches it's web site What more is there to say? Woo-hoo!